In re Parenting of M.M.K.
Annotate this CaseWhen Child was just over a year old, Mother executed a power of attorney in favor of Appellant to allow her to care for Child. Mother later recovered physical custody of Child and moved with Child and her new husband to Oklahoma. Appellant commenced the present case by filing a petition for parental interest determination. The district court referred the case to its standing master. The standing master concluded that the district court had jurisdiction to determine Mother’s parental interest petition because Child lived in Montana at the time it was filed and had lived in Montana for two years before that. The district court reversed on the issue of jurisdiction, determining that Montana was an inconvenient forum and should decline to exercise jurisdiction over the matter. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that the best forum to resolve Child’s future was not in Montana.
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